St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-27
A FOOLS WISDOM.


BRACKET hurried on to Wabasha
street and into store, whose proprie-
tor he thought he could catch. Instead
of the gentleman, though. he encountered
his wife. She, divining the purpose of
his call, attacked him in this manner:
"IOu can't have my husband. He is
Just through with one jury, and have
been working two weeks and sixteen
hours day alone. Get out of here. l
should think you would be ashamed to
take him just because you think he has
Il little spare time. | won't stand it any
longer. There's the door,"
The venerable deputy bowed his gray
locks to the storm, and, finding the
door, made his escape.
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Whisky is a good thing at the right
time and place. but when taken other
wise don't think it pays. There is an
old gray-haired man in st. Paul at the
present time whose occupation is that
of book agent. He has fine features,
the bearing of a prince, and the educa-
ton of scholar. He is probably one
of the best judges of whisky in st. Paul.
In the time that it took him to become a
judge of this whisky he degenerated
from the presidency of the leading bank
in Montreal to his present position. 1t
don't pay.
1t is not strange, think, that one of
the literary circles of st. Anthony hill
should give birth to the following con-
verSation:
''Have you read of the discovery of
Mr.. DoNNELLY by Mr.. BACON?"
why, no. How was it?"
''Well, you see, don't know much,
you know. about the dead languages.
because I'm alive, tee. hee,) but MIR.
BACON had lot of cyphers that once
belonged to SHAKESPEARE (yOu know
he wrote that play for Miss MATHER)
and he was looking at them one day,
and he put them together, and that is
the way Mr.. DONNELLY was discovered.
Isn't it funny, tee, hee?"
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Father RAVOUX, whose serious i'll
ness the daily papers have noted, is
man of remarkable ability and eXcep-
tiOnal modeSty. He has been content to
remain priest and to labor in the lowly
positions of his church rather than to
occupy higher stations more suited to
his capabilities. 1t is not generally
known that he has had several Opp0r-
tunitieS to become bishop, and that he
might have been the successor of Bishop
GRACE instead of the present incum-
bent. He declined in each instance the
prOffered honor. For what reason /
cannot discover, except that with sin
gular self-depreciation he did not feel
himself fitted to occupy them.
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The guarantee companies who make
it their business to insure the honesty
of employees require from the insured
an application very similar to that used
by life insurance companies. 1t con-
tains great many questions relating to
ones private life, and which must be
strictly answered. There is young
lady in st. Paul who found it necessary
to fill out one of these applications in
order to retain her position. She an
swered all of the questions correctly
until she came to the one, ''What is your
age?" HeSltating moment, she wrote
in reply,
Irrelevant, immaterial and impu-
dent"
49,
The announcement of the death of
REMENYI, the viOlinist, recalls to many
citizens of st. Paul an incident in con-
nection with his last visit here. 1t was
nearly six years ago. He had large
audience, and his playing was superb.
just before the programme was finished
a very severe rain storm began. For
two hours it was practically impossible
for the audience to get away. The
maestro recognized their dilemma, and
with generous courtesy played on until
the storm was ended. He gave them a
musical treat wholly unexpected, and
one which will never be forgotten.
&
Gov. McGuL is having a good time
patching up broken promises. His latest
feat in this direction is the appointment
of J. p. NEST, OF Wells, to the Office of
assistant labor StatiStician. The office
is of no particular value except that it
has thOuSand-dOllar salary attached to
it. Mr.. WEST is one of the gentlemen
to whom Gov. MCGIIL in the campaign
of 1886 held out the tempting bait of the
insurance cOmmiSSionership. AS far as
can be ascertained, his first duties in his
new position will be to calculate the
amount of labor 1t requires on the part
of the governor to say NO" when any
one asks him if he wrote his inaugural
message.
It leaks out in dliblets that the Re-
publican state central committee IS
broken I'D over MCGII.L, and that even
Friend HEATwoLE has revolted against
him. The latter says rather SarcaStically
of the governors refusal to remove or
suspend Warden SToRDoCK: ''MCGILL
evidently understands how best to pro-
tect his personal interests" He then
goes OH and raps the magnetic leader
over the fingers for running the state
administration on the principle of hav-
ing friends to reward and enemies to
punish. He refers also to the states
prison naStineSs. and says that he I'M
derstands that under the ST0RDOCK
management the YOUNGER brothers are
allowed private interviews with Wis
itors whom they imagine can be in
luced to work for their pardon. don't
think that this latter statement is
strange, since it is known that persons
standing very near to Gov. MCGILL are
strongly interested in said pardon.
JoEI. makes one other funny notation,
and that is that, within the last six
months the governor, with the steadi-
ness of weathervane, has supported
three different candidates for the Re
publican nomination for president
SHERMAN, BLAINE and LINCOLN.
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This Republican committee is to be
recognized next year, am told, and a
more harmonious body secured. JOHN
S. PuLsBURY is very averSe to med
ding with the management of the party
again. | think that he has been
politically sick of the MCGIIL regime
ever since that famous secret meeting
of the committee in the Merchants hotel
last fall. RANDALL, of Morris. was the
talker of that meeting, and he told some
fearfully plain facts, about the bolt in
the Fifth district. Mr.. PILLsBURY Of
fered to resign then and there, but was
not permitted to. But from that time
on only four members of the committee
performed any real work for the sue
cess of the ticket. The country MEM
bers of the Republican party have
claimed that the chairman of the COM
mittee or the secretary should be from
the country. Last year they got the
secretary. This year they intend to try